Spill Management
Spill Management
ANJUMOL.M. ANTONY(ICN)
18-01-2020
• Policy: Policy states that the practices to be
followed in case of any hazardous spillages
occurred in Holy family hospital,
Muthalakodam.
• Scope: This policy serves as a guideline for all
employees for managing different type of
hazardous spillage in health care setting
Management of Mercury Spills:
• Mercury spillage kit contains
Apron, gloves, face mask, eye shields, syringe,
spatula, plastic bags-2, packing tape, flash light
and small container.
Management of Mercury Spills:
Procedure
• Remove jewellery and put on gloves,mask and eye shield.
• Use a flash light to locate the mercury
• Use the spatula to scrape the droplets together.
• The Mercury shall be transferred into a vial/ container provided
• Do not use a broom. Never use a vacuum cleaner, it will cause mercury vapor to
disperse throughout the room
• Carefully suction the mercury droplets using syringe.
• Carefully place the material along with any broken glass into a container with
some water
• Pick up any remaining beads of mercury with sticky tape and place contaminated
tape in a plastic bag along with the syringe, spatula, and gloves
• Label the bag as mercury waste
• Incident form shall be filled by the personnel involved with the incident within 24
hours of the occurrence and submitted it to the Administrator
• The containers with mercury and mercury waste are sent to a central point bio-
medical department from where it is sent to the supplier for recycling.
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MANAGEMENT OF BLOOD SPILL
SMALL SPILL- LESS THAN 10 CM
LARGE SPILL-MORE THAN 10 CM
SMALL SPILL
• Cover spills of blood or body fluids with
gauze/cotton soaked in sodium hypochlorite
solution or 1% dilution of freshly prepared
sodium hypochlorite for 10-15 minutes. Then
mop dry.
• A second decontamination may be done if
required. Wash the area with detergent and
water.
• Gloves must be worn
• during cleanup and decontamination procedures.
LARGE BLOOD SPILL
Management of blood spillage
1. Make the people aware about spill
2. Cordon off the area.
3. Identify the spill kit.
4. Wear PPE.
5. Put soaking paper (newspaper) over the spill.
6. Prepare 1%of Hypochlorite solution
7. Pour this prepared solution over the recovered spill.
8. Leave for contact time ideally 20 minutes but if the area where the spill is
occurred is a very busy area then minimum 2-5 minutes.
9. After contact time put another paper covering the soaked paper and then
remove the soaked paper and put it in the yellow bag.
10. Discard this yellow bag in main yellow bin in the unit.
11. Clean the area with soap and water.
12. Remove the PPE & discard it in the yellow bag.
13. Do hand washing.
14. Report the spill in incident reporting form
SPILLAGES OF BODY FLUIDS NOT VISIBLY CONTAMINATED WITH BLOOD